Be sure to include your name, daytime phone number, address, name and phone number of legal next-of-kin, method of payment, and the name of the funeral home/crematory to contact for verification of death.

"The Light Between Oceans" by M. L. Stedman (Scribner, $16) — A husband and wife stationed at a lighthouse on a remote Australian island take in a baby after a shipwreck. This act has consequences, and the characters are drawn into increasingly tragic circumstances. Stedman will be at Watermark Books at 7 p.m. Friday.

"The Burgess Boys" by Elizabeth Strout (Random House, $26) — From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Olive Kitteridge" comes a story about brothers who have spent their lives trying to escape their Maine upbringing until their sister calls them home to help with her troubled teenage son.

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